ViolVioletVine
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“
Life —
I am of both of your directions
Life
Somehow remaining hanging downward
the most
but strong as a cobweb in the
wind — I exist more with the cold glistening frost.
But my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in paintings — ah Life, they
have cheated you.
I am of both of your directions
Life
Somehow remaining hanging downward
the most
but strong as a cobweb in the
wind — I exist more with the cold glistening frost.
But my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in paintings — ah Life, they
have cheated you.
— Marilyn Monroe (from Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters)
Un jour sans Chris Marker, un jour Sans Soleil…
Reblogged from WHYDAH
Tags: chris marker sans soleil
“
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
— Excerpt from Auguries of Innocence, by William Blake
“
I am a free prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field; and this my conscience tells me!
— Samuel “The Prince of Pirates” Bellamy (the captain of the Whydah Galley)
Reblogged from WHYDAH
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
— Anne Sexton
“‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldiers knew
Someone had blundered:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.”
-Excerpt from the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854), by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies, even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don’t live to eat.
Don’t p…”
-The code of Dinotopia, from the book Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (1992)
“‘Mine is a long and a sad tale!’ said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.”
-Excerpt from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
“
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.
— Neil Gaiman, “Snow, Glass, Apples”
From Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (via liquidnight)
From Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (via liquidnight)
Reblogged from (OvO)
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